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Higher Ed Leaders Rally to Protect DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coleman, who has over three decades of experience in inclusion work, emphasized the importance of strong communications and media representation in defending DEI efforts. We've been under attack around the federal government. Lisa Coleman, the first female and first Black president of Adler University.

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Trade Commission Sues Grand Canyon University for Deceptive Advertising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

it is baffling that the federal government has chosen to target a Christian university that is addressing those issues in very positive ways," the university said in a statement. GCE advertised on websites and social media urging prospective students to submit their contact information on digital forms, according to FTC filings.

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Baylor Confirms Exemption from Title IX Claims

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lori Fogleman, Baylor’s assistant vice president of media and public relations, said in a statement that “Baylor is responding to current considerations by the U.S. Department of Education to move to an expanded definition of sexual harassment, which could infringe on Baylor’s rights under the U.S.

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House weaponization subcommittee seeks records from universities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

universities are getting swept up in House Republicans’ investigation into the “weaponization” of the federal government. ” House Republicans formed the ​​Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government this year in order to investigate violations of civil liberations.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. Recruitment is done through professional organizations and media. After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts.

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How to keep moving when higher ed data dries up

University Business

The federal data scaffolding may be crumbling but the need to tell the full story of higher educationclearly, credibly and comparablyremains intact. Much of the media was focused on challenges to DEI, the loss of research grants and immigration visits to campuses. Do families log into the College Navigator every day?

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Confidence in college: Has it collapsed? Better think again

University Business

That’s the common narrative in a seemingly never-ending scroll of media reports and surveys raising the alarms about falling enrollment and political controversies on campus. A majority of Americans want state and federal governments to spend more on higher ed to make college more affordable. ” U.S.

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